“Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 66 of 169
“In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.”
“I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.”
“Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!”
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
“People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.”
“The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.”
“All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.”
“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.”
“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”
“It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.”
“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
“Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.”
“We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.”
“Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.”
“The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.”
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
“I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.”
“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”
“What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”